{"id":760164,"date":"2026-09-04T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760164\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:14:10","slug":"runway-reopens-at-gatwick-airport-after-flights-were-grounded-due-to-technical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760164\/","title":{"rendered":"Runway reopens at Gatwick airport after flights were grounded due to &#8216;technical issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The runway at Gatwick Airport has reopened after flights were grounded due to an issue with an aircraft which was stuck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">All flights were grounded for a period on Friday afternoon (4 September) with the runway shut due to what the airport described as &#8220;a technical issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">A London Gatwick spokesperson said: &#8220;The runway was closed for 50 minutes this afternoon (Friday 4 September) due to a technical issue with a departing aircraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;The aircraft was towed from the runway, which reopened shortly afterwards following a full safety inspection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;As always, safety and security is our number one priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The issue is believed to be connected to the landing gear of a Boeing 787 aircraft from Norse Atlantic Airways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Passengers are advised to travel to the airport as normal and check with their airlines for any disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Reporting History sees journalists join <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meet-the-team\/tom-bradby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby<\/a> to revisit their remarkable on-the-day reports of the defining events of the modern age. Listen to the episodes below&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The runway at Gatwick Airport has reopened after flights were grounded due to an issue with an aircraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}